# जू
## Sanskrit
### Alternative forms

* जु (ju), जव् (jav)

### Alternative scripts

* জূ (Assamese script)
* ᬚᬹ (Balinese script)
* জূ (Bengali script)
* 𑰕𑰳 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀚𑀽 (Brahmi script)
* ဇူ (Burmese script)
* જૂ (Gujarati script)
* ਜੂ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌜𑍂 (Grantha script)
* ꦗꦹ (Javanese script)
* 𑂔𑂴 (Kaithi script)
* ಜೂ (Kannada script)
* ជូ (Khmer script)
* ຊູ (Lao script)
* ജൂ (Malayalam script)
* ᡯᡠᡠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘕𑘴 (Modi script)
* ᠽᠤᠤ (Mongolian script)
* 𑦵𑧕 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐖𑐹 (Newa script)
* ଜୂ (Odia script)
* ꢙꢹ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆘𑆷 (Sharada script)
* 𑖕𑖳 (Siddham script)
* ජූ (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩣𑩒𑩛 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚑𑚱 (Takri script)
* ஜூ (Tamil script)
* జూ (Telugu script)
* ชู (Thai script)
* ཛཱུ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒖𑒴 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨥𑨃𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́awH- (“to quicken, to hasten, to impel, hurry”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European root *ǵewH- (“force, drive”). Cognate with Middle Persian [script needed] (zwt' /⁠zūd⁠/) (whence Persian زود (zud, “early”)), Classical Persian زور (zōr, “force, strength”), and Avestan 𐬰𐬆𐬎𐬎𐬍𐬱𐬙𐬌𐬌𐬀 (zəuuīštiia, “quickest”). Possible Indo-European cognates include Old Norse keyra (“drive”) and Proto-Slavic *žurìti (“to rage”).

### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /d͡ʑúː/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /d͡ʑuː/

### Root

जू • (jū)
* to press forwards, hurry on, be quick
* to impel quickly, urge or drive on, incite
* to scare
* to excite, promote, animate, inspire

#### Derived terms

* ज (já, “speedy”)
** ज (já, “speed, swiftness”)
** जव (jáva, “velocity, speed, haste”)
** जवीयस् (jávīyas, “quicker, fleeter”)
** जविष्ठ (jáviṣṭha, “quickest, fleetest”)
** जवन (jávana, javaná, “quick, swift, fleet”)
** जविन् (javín, “quick, swift, fleet”)
** जवस् (jávas, “swift, rapid”)
** जुवस् (júvas, “celerity, swiftness”)
** जू (jū́, “quick, speedy; inciting, driving”)
** जूति (jūtí, “driving; velocity; impulse, energy”)
** जूत (jūtá, “impelled, driven”)
** जुनति (junā́ti, “to go, move”)
** जवति (javati, “to press forwards, hurry on, be quick to impel”)
** जवते (jávate, “to press forwards, hurry on, be quick to impel”)
** जू (jū́, “courser”)
** यातुजू (yātú-jū́, “possessed by Yātu-s”)
** जूजुवस् (jūjuvás, “speedy”)
** धीजवन (dhī́-jávana, “rousing or inspiring the mind”)

### Adjective

जू • (jū́) stem
* quick, speedy, courser
* inciting, driving

#### Declension
### Noun

जू • (jū) stem, f
* speed
* the atmosphere
* a female goblin
* Sarasvati
* a spot on the forehead (?) of horses and oxen

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “jav$^i$-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 250-1
* ↑ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “JAVᴵ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 580-1

### Further reading

* Monier Williams (1899) “जू”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 424/2.
* William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 55